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No. 369,160; Patented Aug. 30, 1887,

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CHARLES E. OANDEE, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,160 dated August 30, 1887. Application filed June .21, 1887. .Serial No. 242,005. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GHARLEs E. GANDEE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cuff-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention more particularly relates to that description of cuff holders or fasteners more especially designed for ladies use,which are made of or from spring-wire constructed to form a safety-pin at the one end of the device for engagement with the sleeve of the dress and constructed at the opposite end to connect with the cuff, although in the presentinstance not directly, but through the intervention of the cuff button or stud, not, however, through an attached elastic cord formed into a close loop, as has heretofore been done.

The invention consists in a peculiar and special construction of such a cuff holder or fastener,substantially as hereinafi er described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters'of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of my improved euff-fasteneras applied to a ladys cuff and sleeve when on the arm or per. son of the wearer. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal view, upon a larger scale, of the cuff-fastener detached, and Fig. 3 is an end view of the same from the safety-pin end of the fastener.

The whole fastener A is or may be made from a single piece of light spring-wire bent at its one end to form a spring-hook or openended loop, I), having a contracted throat or mouth, 0, and arranged in transverse relation with the stem or shank d of the fastener. The other end of the stem d, which may be a straight one and of any desired length, is first bent over to form an eye, 6, then bent outward to one side, as at f, in the same plane,or nearly so, as the hook orloop b, then turned back and over and bent to form a hook-shaped loop, 9, the one side of which is bent and continued to form a cross member orportion, h, parallel, or nearly so, with the portion f, and made to pass through the eye 6 to the opposite side of;

the stem d, then bent to form a spring-coil, t, and subsequently extended back again crosswise of the stem and sharpened or pointed at its outer end to form a pin, 70. This pin should be sufficiently long to engage, when closed, after the manner ofa safety-pin,which it and its immediate parts constitute, under and within the hook-shaped loop g, as more clearly shown by full lines in Figs. 2 and 3. When disengaged the pin it is thrown outward by the tension of the spring-coil t, as

shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

To apply the fastener, the pin 70 is disengaged from the hook-shaped loop 9, and it and the whole safety-pin portion of the fastener passed under the sleeve B of the dress, and the pin It passed outward and back again through said sleeve, and its pointed end engaged with-the hook-shaped loop 9, as shown in Fig. 1. The hook or open-ended loop portion b of the fastener is then passed under the head of the button 0 of the cuff D and made to engage with the shank s of said button, whereby the fastener holds the cuff in place and keeps it suitably proj ccted beyond the end of the sleeve, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

As the fastener is made of light wire and but little of it exposed when applied, it will present no unsightly appearance, while it will form a very secure cuff holder, yet admit of the cuff being readily detached when required to change it foranother, by simply disengaging the open-ended loop portion b of the fastener from the shank of the cuff-button.

The open-ended loop portion 0 of the fastener, it should be observed, occupies a fixed and approximately parallel position relatively to the safety-pin at the other end of the fast ener, and by its construction, as described, it forms a metallic spring open-ended clasp or jaw, which, while it readily yields at its contracted open end or mouth to pass the shank of the cuff-button into or out of it, securely holds, without stretch, onto the button when engaged, and requires no nice or difficultfingering to disengage it.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The metal cuff-holder herein described, consisting of a body portion or stem, an openended spring-clasp at one end of said. stem adapted to embrace the shank of a cuff-buteye, a, and lateral arm or portion f, then ton, and a safety-pin at the other end adapted turned back and over and bent to form a hook- I 5 to engage with the sleeve of the garment, said shaped loop, 5 and continued to form a cross n spring-clasp and safety-pin being in transmember or portion, h, which passes through 5 verse relation to the body portion of the cnfi'- the eye and is bent into a spring-coil, a, on the holder, substantially as specified. opposite side of the stem to the loop 9 and 2. The withiudescribed cuff fastener or continued and fashioned to form a pin, 7c, 20

holder A,eonstrneted of a piece of light springwhich is adapted to engage with the loop 9, as Wire made to form a stem, d, shaped or bent set forth.

10 at its one end into an open-ended spring-loop, CHARLES E. CANDEE.

11,111 transverse relation with the stem and \Vitnesses: having a contracted throat or month, 0, and E. D. STAIR, shaped or bent at its opposite end to form an O. SEDGWIOK. 

